Computer Organization and Design, w. CD-ROM

Computer Abstractions and Technology
Instructions: Language of the Computer
Arithmetic for Computers
Assessing and Understanding Performance
The Processor
Enhancing Performance with Pipelining
Large and Fast: Exploiting Memory Hierarchy
Storage, Networks and Other Peripherals
Multiprocessors and Clusters
Mapping Control to Hardware
A Survey of RISC Architectures for Desktop, Server, and Embedded Computers

Dr. David Patterson ist Professor für Computer Science an der University of California, Berkeley. Anfang der 1980er Jahren leitetet er zusammen mit Carlo H. Sequin das Berkeley RISC-Projekt das zu RISC I, dem ersten VLSI Reduced Instruction Set Computer führte. Auf dieser Basis entwickelte Sun Microsystems später den SPARC-Prozessor.
Mitte der 1980er Jahre entwickelte Patterson, zusammen mit Randy Katz, das RAID-Konzept (redundant array of independent disks). 1989 arbeitete er am Supercomputer CM-5. Patterson und seine Kollegen versuchten später, einen Supercomputer aus Standard-Desktopcomputern und Switches aufzubauen. Das daraus entstandene NOW-Projekt (Network of Workstations) führte zur Cluster-Technologie. Heute arbeitet er am ROC-Projekt (Recovery Oriented Computing). 2004 bis 2006 war er Präsident der ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).
Patterson ist Autor von über 150 Artikeln und zahlreicher (Lehr-)Bücher; er erhielt rund 30 Auszeichnungen und Ehrungen für seine Tätigkeit in Forschung und Lehre.

"The new coverage of multiprocessors and parallelism lives up to the standards of this well-written classic. It provides well-motivated, gentle introductions to the new topics, as well as many details and examples drawn from curent hardware." - John Greiner, Rice University "Patterson and Hennessy not only improve the pedagogy of the traditional material on pipelined processors and memory hierarchies, but also greatly expand the multiprocessor coverage to include emerging multicore processors and GPUs. Computer Organization and Design sets a new benchmark against which all other architecture books must be compared." - David A. Wood, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Intended for computer science students and programmers of varied experience levels, this textbook on computer design and engineering provides a firm foundation in hardware engineering and computer architecture that will aid readers not only in working with hardware design and assembly language programming, but inform software engineers as to the underlying technologies and principles at work in machines they program for. Topics discussed include computer abstractions and technologies, instructions as to the language of computer hardware, arithmetic for computers, processors, memory hierarchies, storage and I/O, and multicores and multiprocessors. A series of appendices offers detailed information on graphics and GPU processes. Chapters include numerous illustrations and code examples and an accompanying CD-ROM provides additional chapters and other resources. This fourth edition is updated to account for the latest technological improvements."--Reference and Research Book News, Inc. "This book, now in its fourth edition, is a comprehensive introduction to modern computer architecture and is aimed at a variety of audiences with backgrounds in either hardware or software.While there is a great deal of technical content, concepts are lucidly described and always given meaningful context. I found this book to